Monthly Archives: October 2012

Having access to sites that provide books as pdf per chapter, I often just want to download all of the pdf files and concatenate them with pdftk. All the sites I’ve come across have had rather obscure naming strategies for the pdf files; you cannot just pdftk *.pdf concat output ready.pdf.

Just a quickpress on my t2’12 experience. It was the first infosec conference I’ve ever attended, and I’m still in awe on the actual contents.

Basically there was everything I would had hoped for from current-ish events (Huawei, Flame), interesting targets (EMV payment devices, USB, browsers) to actual enterpise protection tips. At least these are the topics on top of my mind right now.

Almost surprisingly there was a talk by Rick Falkvinge, the founder of Pirate Partiet (of Sweden). His keynote was very inspiring and thought-provoking. Looking at the conference schedule as a whole, it was a great kickoff for the talks to come. (Mentioning this in it’s own paragraph as Rick requested mentioning his unique name near the end of his talk. :)

Not too long ago I managed to read the previous issue of jaxenter.com’s magazine. The magazine was called Java Tech Journal but it has now been re-branded as JAX Magazine. Next after a few opinions I’ll be taking a peek at the contents of this issue and writing this as I scroll.

While writing my yesterday’s post I (again) came across destroyallsoftware.com. After (again) watching the free material on that site I (finally) decided to subscribe his screencasts. I was mostly interested in the bash stuff.

First I stumble upon a rant. I often read these, write a long comment about all their faults or misunderstandings leading to their outburst of hatred, but this time it turned out that the site hosting the article has a botched comment form. It tries to load WYSIWYG editor which in turn hides the original <textarea>. Sigh.

I do get some notifications that a user has reblogged a post of mine. I peeked at one reblogger, who had reblogged an IDE setup post of mine. (Spoiler: it turned out to be a spam blog with no original content.)

So I finally got Kubuntu 12.04 installed on this brand new Lenovo T430. Everything went except for:

Some IO errors during installation; either SSD became almost full while installing or then it was some power saving feature

No firmware for Intel WLAN on installation; post-installation everything works

I’ll save a draft right now, and try suspending. Suspending was fast, and so was wakeup from it. I’ll try hibernation next, or I would, If it was enabled in the menus. I guess I’m going to have to dig around that some other day.

As expected, with the SSD and good Intel graphic drivers everything is as fast and smooth as possible.

Today I finally have the time to get everything installed on my new T430. Hardware looks nice, and even Windows 7 runs OK on this 180Gb SSD model. I was though glad to see that even with a high speed SSD, Windows update is still able to take whole lot of time.